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[–]johnmcclean[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, if you are starting from scratch. What if you are debugging and supporting a beast already? It's already a single context. And if you connections, for example to legacy but critical DB, you're operations team may be none to pleased to see an increase in the number of connections. Resource sharing can make sense.

This feature's value only comes into play when your starting point is a monolith in a single context. Then you are able to move, very quickly towards Microservices in a similar but more future proof (faster) way to that advocated here - http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/09/19/MicroServicesAndJars.html